Quattrocento Florentine society was one devoted to the idea of ''magnificence,''as seen in
the widespread patronage of art and even in Lorenzo the Magnificent's name. In this short …

Studies, 29), Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012; paperback;
pp. 173; RRP US $19.00; ISBN 9780772721266. Magnificence has long been …

Magnificence has long been acknowledged as a key concept in the study of Renaissance
Florence. It underpinned private financing of public activities, such as the endowment of …

The magnificence with which the Florentine Renaissance is synonymous derived its power
from a virtue elucidated and disseminated by influential preachers as early as the 1420s …

In the city of Florence, where one of the Renaissance men, namely, Lorenzo de'Medici, was
known as “Il Magnifico,” it seems reasonable to investigate the process by which this term …

Peter Howard's compelling study focuses on St. Antoninus Pierozzi (1389–1459) as a
central protagonist in the shaping of the concept of magnificence in Florentine culture …

Book Reviews 499 classes within a limited geographic area, worked via preaching. Second,
this study presents a clear scholarly understanding of the Florentine struggle to establish …

On the Magnificence of Cosimo de'Medici Against [His] Detractors.(Maffei's text with a lively
English translation is included in the appendices along with excerpts from a sermon and the …

A remarkable proportion of recent scholarship concerning Florence in the fifteenth century
has been devoted to demonstrating that most commissions of this culture's famed works of …

Florentine scholars have been drawn to the theme of" magnificence" for two chief reasons.
Mid-fifteenth-century praise of magnificence provided substantial cover for the …